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RESTAMPING WRIT

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Passing it a second time through the proper office, whereupon it receives a new stamp. 1 Chit Arch. Pr. 212. … [Read more...]

RESTRAINT OF TRADE

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Any act, including collusion amongst the competitors in the marketplace, that substantially impacts and limits the ability to conduct interstate commerce. Such restraints are illegal. … [Read more...]

RESPONDENTIA

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The hypothecation of the cargo or goods on board a ship as security for the repayment of a loan, the tenn "bottomry" being confined to hypothecations of the ship herself; but now the term "respondentia" ia seldom used, and the express slon "bottomry" is generally employed, whether the vessel or her cargo or both be the security. Maude & P. Shipp. 433; Smith, Merc. Law, 416. … [Read more...]

RESTATEMENT OF THE LAW

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Legal treatises that are well recognized analyses on the law and are given great weight and respect in legal argument. … [Read more...]

RESPONDERE NON DEBET

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Latin: In pleading. The prayer of a plea where the defendant insists that he ought not to answer, as when he claims a privilege; for example, as being a member of congress or a foreign ambassador. 1 Chit. PI. 433. … [Read more...]

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